Good afternoon SMJHL community,

It was raised to my attention that the Season 60 SMJHL Playoffs have been simmed with outdated player builds on a wide scale level. Due to unforeseen real life circumstances, we were handicapped with the experience of our simmers and their normal schedule. A miscommunication led to the proper files not being downloaded and inputted by our Simmer. This resulted in games one and two of each series being played with the incorrect builds for an unacceptable number of players who updated this past weekend. Such an extensive mistake invalidates the quality and validity of the sim thus far, and as such we are hereby nullifying the games simulated thus far, and will be restarting the playoffs with game 1, with proper builds, tomorrow at 3pm ET. We will have game 2 at 7pm ET after.

We want to apologize to the SMJHL community. We realize that such a grave mistake has large implications for the playoff hopes of every team, and we want to make sure the games are played at a capacity that lives up to the work each user and GM does to make their team better going into the playoffs. We are immediately working with our simmers to ensure such mistakes never happen again, as well as looking at systematic changes to the team and our checks for them.

While we understand this decision may be unpopular, however we want to emphasize the size of the situation. This oversight affected any and all players who updated going into the playoffs, resulting in well over 80 players not being properly implemented in the simulation.

Thank you for your patience and understanding with the SMJHL HO.